You can with iPrism. Without having to reconfigure your network,
you can be up and running in 15 mins. The iPrism appliance
supports seamless Active Directory & Citrix integration, plus it
supports Mac authentication. If the install is this easy, imagine
how easy maintenance is. It's easier with iPrism.
Sign up now for an online demo & get a t-shirt!
http://www.wservernews.com/091207-iPrism-Web-Security-Gateway

Editor's Corner

VIPRE Receives VB100 Award

We're happy to announce that in the latest comparatives testing by the world's
premier AV lab Virus Bulletin, VIPRE received the VB100 award in its first time
entering, tested on Windows 7! It does not happen very often that a product
that enters the VB100 gets awarded on its first try. VIPRE now having this
certification shows again the quality of our next-generation architecture.
Heads-up, the $10/seat Competitive Upgrade Campaign ends this month, so get
your quote now and make sure the PO is in before the end of the year. Still
got some months to go before your current product expires? We will buy you out:
http://www.wservernews.com/091207-VIPRE-Enterprise

VIPRE 4 Now In Beta

And we're even more excited that both the enterprise and consumer versions of
VIPRE 4 are now in beta. VIPRE 4 includes an integrated firewall, HIPS, IDS,
NIPS and all kinds of other goodness. VIPRE Enterprise features a completely
new console, with new functionality to deal with large enterprise environments.
(PS: VIPRE will still be available without all these extras as well.) If you'd
like to get the beta (or get more information), simply go to here and register
by clicking the 'Join Beta Forums' link:
http://beta.sunbeltsoftware.com

2010 IT & Technology Trends Forecast Survey

As 2009 winds down, many businesses are making technology and budget plans for
next year. What's on your organization's agenda for 2010? ITIC and Sunbelt
Software would like your opinion. We've created a new survey. The questions
are straightforward and it should take you less than 5 minutes to complete.
All responses are kept confidential. And once again, anyone who completes the
survey is eligible to win one of two (2) free iPods. To be eligible to win
the iPods you must leave your Email address along with your comment in the
comment box of the final essay question. Here's the link to the survey:
http://www.wservernews.com/091207-Survey

Quotes Of The Week

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which
hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." -- Carl Sagan

"There is so much bad in the best of us, and so much good in the worst of us,
that it ill behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us." -- Old poem.

Warm regards, and thank you for being a WServerNews subscriber. No trees
were killed in the sending of this message, but a large number of electrons
were terribly inconvenienced. Please tell your friends about us.
They can subscribe here:
http://www.wservernews.com/091207-Subscribe

The independent Tolly Group said in their September 2009 Anti-virus Performance
Test Report: "Consumes up to 38% and 45% less memory, and offers up to 2.6x and
3.6x scanning speed compared to Symantec and McAfee." It's clearly time to kiss
your antivirus bloatware goodbye. Sunbelt built VIPRE Enterprise; a completely
new technology combining corporate antivirus plus an enterprise antispyware
solution for total endpoint security designed by admins for admins. And that
means EASY DEPLOYMENT. Click on the 'Request Info' tab and ask for a quote now:
http://www.wservernews.com/091207-VIPREEnterprise

Cloud computing is an essential and fast-growing sector in IT infrastructure.
It promises to provide vast computing power, reliable off-site data storage,
wide availability, all at lower maintenance and investment costs.

But with all the potential comes risk. Recent cloud computing mishaps (such
as Danger and Google Apps) have underscored the need for consistent and
thorough security policies implemented in the design stage.

When the forecast is calling for scattered zombies and a high probability of
phishing attacks, it's wise to dress properly & take an umbrella. Have you
got the right "umbrella" to protect against the latest web security threats?
Learning which threats may be blowing your way gives you an early opportunity
to chart your security path and ensure you've got appropriate protection in place.

Join Commtouch and its Security Alliance partners RSA and Sunbelt for an
informative session on the latest trends in web threats. Hear a summary of
the most dangerous malware, phishing and web attacks that took place in 2009
and which types of attacks the experts predict you'll need to protect against
in 2010. Don't get caught out in the storm unprotected!

Want total malware protection without the bloat? Join us for a look at VIPRE
Enterprise and learn how Sunbelt started with a blank slate to design a new,
next-generation antivirus and antispyware technology to deal with today's
complex malware in the most comprehensive, highly efficient manner.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 2:00pm - 3:00pm EST
http://www.wservernews.com/091207-Goodbye-Bloatware

Microsoft has been pouring resources back into the IE effort, and at its
recent Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, some fruits of
that labor were on display. In particular, Windows unit president Steven
Sinofsky showed off IE 9's new hardware-accelerated text and graphics.

The acceleration feature takes advantage of hitherto untapped computing power
in a way that's more useful than other browser-boosting technology such
as Google's Native Client to tap into a PC's processor and Mozilla's
WebGL for accelerated 3D graphics, said Dean Hachamovitch, general manager
of Internet Explorer. More:
http://www.wservernews.com/091207-Browser-Wars

What's New in Microsoft Office 2010?

Office 2010 went beta channels week, and the crew at Lifehacker spent some
time playing with it. According to their early judgment, it's incremental.
Office 2010 doesn't make the leap that Office 2007 made from 2003, but
there are enough little tweaks and improvements to keep things interesting.
Here is a list with the most obvious ones:
http://www.wservernews.com/091207-Office-2010

Why You Should Embrace Memory Overcommits For Your VMs

Think of it as resource sharing. Most systems aren't maxing out their
available memory anyway. It's a big reason that companies adopt
virtualization in the first place: to reduce the resource waste across all
those single-instance physical servers. Get the whole story at InfoWorld:
http://www.wservernews.com/091207-Memory-Overcommits

Microsoft Readying SP3 For Exchange 2007

After reversing course on Exchange 2007 support, Microsoft now says a third
service pack for the messaging server that adds compatibility with Windows
Server 2008 R2 will ship in the second half of next year. In addition,
Microsoft said it now supports write functions to Active Directory from
Exchange 2003 SP2. The changes, according to Microsoft, were based on
customer feedback. Microsoft stopped short of filling every Exchange request
from users, saying it will not provide in-place upgrades for servers running
underneath Exchange 2007. But company officials left the topic up for debate
for future versions of Exchange. Story at Computerworld:
http://www.wservernews.com/091207-SP3-for-Exchange-2007

Podcast: Cloud Computing Management Overview

While not distinctly different from traditional data center management,
cloud computing management presents a new environment and new situations
for vendors and users to master in order to keep a watchful eye on their
applications and data. Learn about the meaning of cloud management, its
growing purpose in the cloud computing world and the expectations laid
on cloud management providers in this expert podcast.
http://www.wservernews.com/091207-Cloud-Computing-Management

Windows Server News

Upgrading From Exchange Server 2007 to 2010: Differences:

Here is a page that makes it nice and clear what all the differences are
and why it makes sense to upgrade. For instance, Fault Tolerance has been
beefed up: "Several high-availability options have been consolidated into
just one option for Exchange Server 2010 (Mailbox Resiliency), which is
now offered in both the Standard and Enterprise editions. The capabilities
of Local Continuous Replication, Standby Continuous Replication, and Cluster
Continuous Replication are now unified into the Exchange 2010 Mailbox
Resiliency capability. These capabilities enable a simplified approach to
high availability and disaster recovery."
http://www.wservernews.com/091207-Comparison-Chart

Even though it's been around for a while, SharePoint is still brand new
for many users, and they don't really know what to do with it. Without
proper training, large numbers of end users unfamiliar with SharePoint
may reject it completely. At the least, lack of proper training slows
productivity while end users are struggling to learn how to use it.
Learn how to make your SharePoint training a success in this expert tip.
(Email registration required)
http://www.wservernews.com/091207-SharePoint-Training

Avoid The Big Mistakes When Backing Up Virtual Servers

Some of the drawbacks of migrating your servers to virtual machines come
from your old infrastructure. The backup systems in particular can come
under disruptive fire because most have been designed to support a certain
number of physical servers. Now that your server count can grow exponentially,
you need to address your backup solution before virtualization causes backups
to get out of control. Learn what proactive steps you can take to avoid that
from happening: (Email registration required)
http://www.wservernews.com/091207-Backing-Up-Virtual-Servers

Third Party News

Virus Bulletin Calls For Collaboration Amongst Anti-Spam Vendors

Virus Bulletin (VB) finds that, when it comes to spam filtering, a combined
effort outperforms individual products. Virus Bulletin has discovered that
running several spam filters in combination could be key to getting the best
performance out of them. Following the last VBSpam comparative review of
anti-spam products, the VB test team established that if the efforts of
several filters were to be combined, the performance would be significantly
better than that of any of the products on their own.

In the test, almost 200,000 emails were sent to 14 different anti-spam solutions
which were required to classify them as either ham or spam. The test revealed
that no legitimate mail was blocked by more than four products. After the
test, VB's anti-spam team decided to look into this further and considered a
hypothetical filter that marked an email as spam if at least five of the 14
products did so. Unlike any of the individual products, the hypothetical
filter generated no false positives at all, and combined this 0% false
positive rate with an impressive overall spam catch rate of 99.89% (higher
than any of the individual products VB has tested). The interesting thing is
that VIPRE Email Security for Exchange combines several top engines:
http://www.wservernews.com/091207-VIPRE-Email-Security

The Latest Multi-Platform List Of New Vulnerabilities

SNSI uses the latest Mitre Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) list
of computer incidents. It also contains the latest SANS/FBI top 20
vulnerability list. SNSI also uses the latest CERT, CIAC Microsoft and
FedCIRC (Department of Homeland Security) advisories.

Sunbelt Network Security Inspector version 2.0.2670.0 Definition Set 206
was released December 3, 2009. Sunbelt Software recommends you download
the new SNSI Vulnerability Update Definitions 206, scan, and patch your
machines today. To get the latest SNSI version, visit:
http://www.wservernews.com/091207-Sunbelt-Network-Security-Inspector

WServerNews Fave Links

This Week's Links We Like. Tips, Hints And Fun Stuff.

This story is about PVT Channing Moss, who was impaled by a live RPG during
a Taliban ambush while on patrol. Army protocol says that medevac choppers
are never to carry anyone with a live round in him. Even though they feared
it could explode, the flight crew said damn the protocol and flew him to
the nearest aid station. Again, protocol said that in such a case the
patient is to be put in sandbagged area away from the surgical unit, given
a shot of morphine and left to wait (and die) until others are treated.
Again, the medical team ignored the protocol. Here's a seven-minute video
put together by the Military Times, which includes actual footage of the
surgery where Dr. John Oh, a Korean immigrant who became a naturalized
citizen and went to West Point, removed the live round with the help of
volunteers and a member of the EOD (explosive ordinance disposal) team.
We should never forget what these guys are doing for us every day:
http://www.wservernews.com/091207-PVT-Channing-Moss

Wow!! Larry David has had the Seinfeld cast in his show. In the finale,
they re-create Seinfeld, but with 2009 references. George, it turns out,
made millions from an iPhone app called the iToilet, but lost it all by
investing with Bernie Madoff. Gold, Jerry, GOLD!
http://www.wservernews.com/091207-Curb-Your-Enthusiasm

You can with iPrism. Without having to reconfigure your network,
you can be up and running in 15 mins. The iPrism appliance
supports seamless Active Directory & Citrix integration, plus it
supports Mac authentication. If the install is this easy, imagine
how easy maintenance is. It's easier with iPrism.
Sign up now for an online demo & get a t-shirt!
http://www.wservernews.com/091207-iPrism-Web-Security